Those are very close to my results. I did some experimenting with a human silouette, and loaded and fired five times from my bag. Loose powder and ball took an average of 45 seconds to load and fire, but I could hit the kill zone about 75% of the time at sixty yards. I'd like to try agin with paper cartridge, just to see if they speed loading that much. Sure would not have wanted to be line infantry in the old days!